FREMONT — A 34-year-old Fremont man was arraigned Friday on 12 felony charges for allegedly breaking into a neighboring family’s home and sexually assaulting the mother while her daughter lay bound in duct tape in the next room.

Fremont police say Jamala Morris confessed to the crimes related by the victims. They reported their ordeal with Morris upon finding him in their Paseo Padre Parkway apartment just after midnight on Sunday.

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday filed a 15-page complaint against Morris with charges including false imprisonment, assault, residential robbery, burglary, and multiple sexual offenses. Morris has prior felony convictions for robbery, evading police and driving under the influence and has been on probation since March.

Police said Morris had seen the mother and daughter in the neighborhood but never interacted with them before he entered their home through an unlocked door while they were out.

The women returned home to find a masked Morris threatening them with a sawed-off shotgun.

Morris bound and gagged both women with duct tape before searching their apartment, according to police. He then took the mother to another room and sexually assaulted her, an attack stopped when a male resident returned home and scared Morris away, police said.

Police said they identified Morris as a suspect through physical and phone evidence and surveillance video. Officers executed a probation search of his residence later Sunday morning and found the sexual assault victim’s purse and wallet, a sawed-off shotgun, a roll of duct tape, and other evidence linking him to the crime, police said.

Morris is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail. The district attorney’s office could not immediately confirm Friday whether he entered a plea at his arraignment at the Fremont Hall of Justice.

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